A team of restoration workers in Dijon, France, pulled up a section of stone flooring inside the Church of Saint Philibert ...

Her original approach to the complementarity of men and women is distilled in her numerous historical works on the Middle Ages and her monographs on the great saints of Western history ...

Of course, members of the Trump administration aren’t sending soldiers to Vatican City; the Catholic church no longer has anywhere near the political influence that it possessed in the Middle Ages.

The church actually sponsored some of the most beautiful and radical art that emerged in the Middle Ages. Monasteries across Europe flourished as centers of learning and philosophy.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ -The Middle Ages spanned 1,000 years, from about 500 to 1500. The first half was a time of relative poverty and economic stagnation. Then around the year 1000, Europe rebounded.

In the collective imagination, the Middle Ages were an eternal valley of tears. Here, the Crucifixion, part of the central panel of the altar of the Franciscan church in Munich, by Jan Polack ...

The sculpture is one of about two dozen similar sculptures from the Middle Ages that still feature on churches around Germany and elsewhere in Europe. 'Judensau' sculpture on the capital of a ...